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I really don't know what to say except this was a very well thought out mystery. Lynley and Havers shine in this one. The why behind the murder made me sad and what made me even more sad is that you see what other ugliness was going on at Bredgar Chambers. The only reason why I didn't favorite this one is that the Deborah and St. James sub-plot was beyond aggravating. "Well-Schooled in Murder" takes 2 months after the last book in the series. Lynley is still heart-broken that his proposal to Hel...
I thought I was spacing-out Elizabeth George’s series, which I started last year. I am finished her third novel and deem her fantastic mysteries and characters a staple. I did not sympathize with the suspects of “Payment In Blood” but invested in every phase of the sensitively-layered: “Well-Schooled In Murder”, 1990. A real writer with a beautifully descriptive and observational eloquence; Elizabeth proves herself a master plotter too. There is no straight road to motive and crime. A murdered b...
So much angst. Every character has a sub-plot: Sgt. Havers and her father's illness and mother's dementia, ,Lynley and his love Helen, the murder victim's parents and their secret, the woman who found the body and her secret....so much beating of the chest and wailing that it becomes a bit tiresome. Then throw in the main plot with private school bullies, bigotry and pedophilia with a murder on top and it was unpleasant at best. Well written but not well liked by me.
This is the third book in the Inspector Lynley Series.I read this book as a buddy read with a GR friend and it was a lot of fun.Lynley is asked to investigate a missing child at a private school, and he and Havers are thrust into a world of lies, intrigue, and twisted passions, thinly veiled in upper-class civility. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley & Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers investigate the murder of a schoolboy tortured and dumped in a churchyard. The boy's housemaster was a schoolmat...
Oh my. I'm still catching my breath. I think I stopped breathing about 7 times in the days it took me to finish 'Well-schooled in Murder'. That's about how often I thought the killer was going to be unmasked, only to discover, along with Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers of New Scotland Yard CID, that we all were wrong again. Oh, the crimes and criminals and secrets were being exposed as fast and furious as a hail storm - but not the murderer of a 13-year-ol...
This is a series I can't believe I resisted reading for so long. My sister recommended Elizabeth George many years ago and I could not get past the first few pages. I can't understand why now, I love her and want to read everything she has written. This is a story about a murder at a posh boarding school, a thirteen year old boy is murdered and his body is dumped in a graveyard, some distance from the school. It turns out, it is Simon St. James' wife, Deborah, who finds the body, as she is there...
The protagonists of these books are full of gloom. The mystery was interesting, but the cutaways into the private turmoils of the detectives and their friends are getting to be a bit much. I liked Lynley at first, but now I think he's a bit of a solipsistic nightmare. Ditto for Deborah--I'm not sure what she, and her own extended internal conflict, were doing in this story at all. I'm not sure I'll go on to book 4.
Lynley and Havers investigate the disappearance of a schoolboy from an independent school and find there are more leads and details than necessary to solve the crime. As I have come to expect, author Elizabeth George uses her characters well, injecting comedic humor as needed to lighten the mood as the two detectives become ever more embroiled in the darker aspects of this crime. While I was able to guess the perpetrator before the ‘big reveal’ that did not detract from my enjoyment of the story...
